-United Nations Human Rights Office of The High Commissioner GENEVA 22 SEPTEMBER 2021: On the eve of the Food Systems Summit, UN human rights experts are deeply concerned that the event will not be a “people’s summit” as promised. They are worried that the Summit will instead leave behind the most marginalized and vulnerable people. According to the three human rights experts, who were involved in the Summit preparation, “The Summit claims...
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What does living in a democracy mean for the poor of India? This book goes to the people to find out -Suryakant Waghmore
-Scroll.in The cast of characters readers will meet is staggering, and necessary, to understand the complex relationship between democracy and some the poorest people. Very few books on poverty in India are as nuanced as Indrajit Roy’s Politics of the poor: Negotiating Democracy in Contemporary India. From its very first page, Roy has his readers agog when he informs them that “the world is richer than it has been at any time...
More »Still short of schooling at 74 -Jean Drèze
-The Hindu India’s failure to put in place a sound schooling system is exacting a heavy price Word has it that there are two schools of thought among Indian development economists — one advocating growth and the other redistribution. This perception is quite misleading. For one thing, growth and redistribution are not the only means of making the world a better place. To illustrate, civil liberties have much to contribute to the...
More »Why Tamil Nadu’s welfare politics can’t be called ‘freebies’ -Bethanavel Kuppusamy and Dharanidharan Sivagnanaselvam
-TheNewsMinute.com One highly criticised Tamil Nadu government scheme was giving colour TV sets to households. While it was derided as a ‘freebie’, research has proved otherwise, write Dharanidharan Sivagnanaselvam and Bethanavel Kuppusamy. In a stratified society such as India trickle down economics do not work. Even in a society such as the US, which has a much lower stratification compared to India, trickle down economics has not worked well. Historically, India has...
More »Official data corroborates deepening of livelihood crisis in urban areas during the 2020 nationwide lockdown
The recently released quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data broadly confirms the dip in employment and jobs during the countrywide lockdown period, followed by a certain degree of recovery in the post-lockdown months last year as have been indicated by various survey-based studies and research papers. The quarterly bulletin on PLFS provides data on key employment and unemployment indicators i.e. Unemployment Rate (UR), Worker Population Ratio (WPR) and Labour...
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